Hard manual labour and human shields in the First World War, before Tennis at Newport, Jack Dempsey boxing, and a final Summer Fantasy.
New York
Originally intending to be a pro sportsman, became one of the pioneers of the Ashcan School with his gritty scenes of ordinary people in New York.
Colin Campbell Cooper’s skyscrapers on Broadway, Columbus Circle, and Manhattan. George Bellows’ human landscapes, and Joseph Stella’s Coney Island and Brooklyn Bridge.
William Merritt Chase’s leafy suburb of Brooklyn in the late 1880s, Robert Henri’s Ashcan view of busy streets in the snow, and the first of Colin Campbell Cooper’s skyscrapers.
The Eclectic Light Company 